30 January 2014 Last updated at 17:24 ET The fire service is providing 10 extra pumps to help ease the flooding in Somerset The environment secretary is warning of further flooding for parts of the UK, with those in affected areas urged to heed Environment Agency advice. Speaking after a meeting of the Cobra emergency [...]

30 January 2014 Last updated at 21:54 ET It will be David Cameron and Francois Hollande’s first summit Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to press French President Francois Hollande to back European Union reform as he hosts a UK-France summit. The talks, which will take place at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, are expected to [...]

30 January 2014 Last updated at 23:54 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Speaking before the verdicts emerged, Knox said she was “a marked person” US student Amanda Knox says she is “frightened and saddened” after a court in Italy reinstated her guilty verdict for the 2007 murder of her British [...]

29 January 2014 Last updated at 23:14 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Justin Bieber was led by police through a crowd of reporters and fans Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has been charged with assaulting a limousine driver in Toronto last month. The 19-year-old handed himself in at a Toronto [...]

30 January 2014 Last updated at 01:13 ET Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are seen here in 2011 when they were acquitted A court in Italy is due to announce new appeal verdicts for two people accused of the murder of UK student Meredith Kercher in 2007. US citizen Amanda Knox and her former Italian [...]

29 January 2014 Last updated at 23:47 ET The home secretary is seeking powers to strip terror suspects of UK citizenship even if it leaves them stateless. The amendment to the Immigration Bill could see naturalised citizens whose conduct is deemed “seriously prejudicial” lose their nationality. People with dual nationality can already lose their British [...]

28 January 2014 Last updated at 23:53 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. US President Barack Obama: “Whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, that’s what I’m going to do” US President Barack Obama has promised to bypass a fractured Congress to tackle economic [...]

28 January 2014 Last updated at 22:58 ET Barclays chief executive Antony Jenkins is looking to revamp Barclays’ corporate culture Barclays plans to close a quarter of its branches in the UK and cut hundreds of jobs in its investment banking division as part of a restructuring. The lender is expected to replace about 400 [...]

29 January 2014 Last updated at 00:18 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Nick Clegg: “This conflict is worsening by the day, that’s why we need to do more” Some of the “most vulnerable” Syrian refugees will be temporarily resettled in the UK, Deputy PM Nick Clegg says. He said girls [...]

27 January 2014 Last updated at 21:42 ET Buckingham Palace is open to visitors daily in August and September Buckingham Palace should be opened to more paying visitors when the Queen is not in residence to fund improvements to the royal estate, MPs have said. The influential Public Accounts Committee criticised the Royal Household for [...]